P. Balakrishna Reddy
FounderFounder of People with Hearing Impaired Network (PHIN)
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P. Balakrishna Reddy is the founder of People with Hearing Impaired Network (PHIN) (2007)[1], an Indian non-profit working on disability and education from Hyderabad.
People with Hearing Impaired Network (PHIN)
People with Hearing Impaired Network is a Hyderabad-based nonprofit founded in 2007, running a residential school that teaches through Indian Sign Language along with hostel facilities for Deaf girls and orphaned children. It also provides ISL training, skill development, and community-based rehabilitation programmes for the Deaf community in Telangana.
People with Hearing Impaired Network (PHIN) reports the following, on its own site:
- Trained over 6,500 hearing-impaired individuals on disability rights (2023-2024)
- 1,150 hearing aids distributed with government and partner support
- Trained 3,000 hearing-impaired individuals in vocational fields
- Mainstreamed more than 4,000 children into regular schools
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Hyderabad
- Founded
- 2007
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “founded by Mrs. V. Janaki, President & P. Balakrishna Reddy, General Secretary who are an” — People with Hearing Impaired Network (PHIN). Source
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